Salt on the Roads

There's salt on the roads and you're still gone

You left in November when the leaves were all down
Said you needed something bigger than a one-diner town
Took the good suitcase and the dog-eared maps
Left a sweater in my truck and a pair of your caps
Now the snow's up to the mailbox and the sky is gray
I scrape the windshield every morning, same as yesterday
I see your mother at the gas station on Route 9
She says you're doing great and I say that's fine

And my buddy says, "Come on out"
And my mama says, "Eat something"
But the bar is where you met me
And the kitchen's where you left me

There's salt on the roads and you're still gone
The plows keep passing and the nights are long
Everybody's got a reason to stay
There's salt on the roads and you drove away

Oh-oh-oh
Salt on the roads
Oh-oh-oh

I tried to get a hobby, I tried to get a cat
I tried to date a nurse from over in the flats
Everybody's pretty but nobody gets the joke
About the moose and the mayor and the chimney smoke
It'll melt in April, that's what everybody says
It'll melt and turn to mud and I'll get out of bed
Till then I'm salting the steps and I'm salting the drive
And I'm salting the wound just to feel alive

And my buddy says, "Come on out"
And my mama says, "Eat something"
But the bar is where you met me
And the kitchen's where you left me

There's salt on the roads and you're still gone
The plows keep passing and the nights are long
Everybody's got a reason to stay
There's salt on the roads and you drove away

And if you're in Chicago
Or you're in L.A
Do you think about the snow
Like I think about your face
And if you ever come home
Bring the dog, just in case

There's salt on the roads and you're still gone
The plows keep passing and the nights are long
Everybody's got a reason to stay
There's salt on the roads and you drove away

Oh-oh-oh
Salt on the roads
Oh-oh-oh